Innovation Labs
Design-Thinking Rationale: A Core Process
The world desperately needs more empathetic problem-solvers. U School seeded the design process at the core of the institution to help guide students and educators through inquiry and change. How we DO influences our ability to affect how we change and grow. Our core values are aligned to the process.
Why Design Thinking?
Learning is a process. All learners (youth and adults) need processes to organize their efforts. The design process offers many opportunities to frame deep learning while reinforcing the key individual developments.
Designers use the process to reinvent, reinvigorate and rebuild systems, products and opportunities for themselves and their communities. Embedded in the practiced skillsets of designers are the seeds for changemakers of tomorrow. At the U School we have created Apps (Playlists and Performance tasks) for each step of the process.
The world desperately needs more empathetic problem-solvers. U School seeded the design process at the core of the institution to help guide students and educators through inquiry and change. How we DO influences our ability to affect how we change and grow. Our core values are aligned to the process.
Why Design Thinking?
Learning is a process. All learners (youth and adults) need processes to organize their efforts. The design process offers many opportunities to frame deep learning while reinforcing the key individual developments.
Designers use the process to reinvent, reinvigorate and rebuild systems, products and opportunities for themselves and their communities. Embedded in the practiced skillsets of designers are the seeds for changemakers of tomorrow. At the U School we have created Apps (Playlists and Performance tasks) for each step of the process.
